Re: Org Newbie Dream/Request for Feature - Display linked email in org file

[CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com>]

*On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:49:05 +0100
* Bastien <bzg@altern.org> climbed out of the dark hell and cried out:


> The links are buttonized.  
>
> Gnus links are handled by org-follow-gnus-link.  I can see no reason
> why you would use something else than Gnus to open gnus links..

I posted this for reason of excitement and only after I read a little
manual. I realized some features are implemented already after I read more.


> You cannot expand the body of an email within an org-mode buffer, but
> you can display it within Emacs by following the link.  I don't know
> if importing the body of the email makes really sense, since we want
> to keep pieces of informations in their usual places, don't we ?
I still think it's useful. I dont mean "importing the body of email". I
just wanna have a way to display it temporarily below the link and not
save to Org file.

> Here is what an email link looks like :
>
>   [[gnus:nnml:mail.biblio#1351][balado diffusion]]
>
> The first part entails the group and message id.
You  know I realized this after. ;-p

> I'm afraid there is no easy way to do this.  The first step would be
> to find an elegant way to export a whole thread from Gnus.. which is
> not that easy!
I understand. Just I think it's possible since Gnus can do this in
summary buffer. There must be a way to do this using Gnus  functions directly.


> Internally displayed emails is something i've been thinking about when
> i was trying to make my org file behave like a blogging plateform.
> Emails would then stand for blogs comments.  But i didn't find time to
> think about it twice.

> Hope you'll find your way through Org, it's really worth the try!
I am not trying. I am using it for work. Though my org file seems really
messy owing to my limited knowledge. But it doesn't matter. My
philosophy is "Use it if I like, use it better and if possible make it
better.".
Org is really fun and powerful.
IIRC Org can not export to texinfo by itself. I may learn to use Muse
with Org.

>
> -- 
> Bastien

Thank you, and kudos to Org. I really like it. It's starting to change
my life.